I'm intrigued by this discussion and where it'll end up. I'm working on a app development team that hopes to become more of a component toolbox team. Consultants would take our components and build/customize an application. The consultants will not have strong development skills, so if we can reduce the number and complexity of files they touch, it'll make theirs and our lives simpler.
Barry ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:24:51 PM Subject: [TurboGears] Re: Formetto: widgets in the template, not in the controller Nando, >I have written up the above page about why I was unsatisfied with the >interface of TG widgets (which puts widgets in our controllers instead >of our template) and why I am making a new interface: Formetto. > > It's great to see a different approach to widgets. There is definitely a need for some kind of reusable components, and a forms library. In the Python world, TG widgets were probably the first credible system for this (does anyone know anything earlier?) The dependence on the controller is a niggle, and I hope an approach like yours can be incorporated into ToscaWidgets. For most of my apps I will continue to define widgets in the controller, primarily generating them from the model (using fieldfactory). But if I find a form where I need particularly granular control of the HTML, this would be fab. I've realised, widgets have to work extremely hard to include the js/css links, quite disproportional to the benefits of this. I wonder, is it enough to just include each link right next to the first widget that needs it? That could be implemented much more easily. Paul ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
